1.   Another advance will allow women who use osteoporosis treatments to see faster results.

2.   At the same time, they said, it offers a safe alternative to the current osteoporosis treatment, formulations of the hormone estrogen.

3.   Chart shows pos and con of osteoporosis treatments.

4.   Cortecs expects results from its Phase II trial of oral calcitonin, its osteoporosis treatment, later this month.

5.   Fosamax is the first in a class of non-estrogen osteoporosis treatments.

6.   Newer medications include the osteoporosis treatment Fosamax, the AIDS drug Crixivan and the blood-pressure drug Cozaar.

7.   The Merck drug and the new bone paste mark a new era in osteoporosis treatments, focusing on building bone mass rather than simply preventing bone loss.

8.   These include Lamisil, an anti-fungal agent, and osteoporosis treatment Miacalcic.

9.   Two others, the blood pressure drug Cozaar and osteoporosis treatment Fosamax, could face a similar threat, said Smith Barney drug analyst Christina Heuer.

10.   Those include calcitonin, marketed as Calcimar, and raloxifene, marketed as Evista, which the FDA recently approved as an osteoporosis treatment.